[Translation
of notes taken by David Irving in late
1960s from Wolff's original German MS;
Wolff, alive at that time, had instructed
the Institute to keep it strictly
confidential, and inspection was allowed
to Mr Irving on that
basis.]

Exceptionally powerful effect on the
Reichsführer SS
[Himmler] of the assassination of
Heydrich. He kept recalling the
declaration of war by the International
Jewish Community as uttered by Chaim
Weizmann in September 1939[*],
and declared that Germany must rid herself
of the seeds, and that the security of the
Reich demanded that we wipe out the Jewish
element. [...]

Perhaps
seventy men all told, from Himmler to
Höss,
were involved in the extermination of the
Jews. [...] "Bormann
[left]
and Himmler [probably]
represented the view that the Jewish
problem had to be dealt with, without
Hitler getting his fingers dirty on
it."

After mass epidemic at Auschwitz,
the idea of deliberate mass deaths
probably occurred. Himmler was in his way
bizarre and religious and held to the view
that for the Greatest Warlord in the
Greatest War of all times he had to take
upon himself tasks, which had to be solved
to put Hitler's ideas into effect, without
engaging him personally.

Around August
1942 the Reichsführer SS dropped
some dark hints: Wolff could have no
idea, what one had had to take on ones
self for the Messiah of the Next Two
Thousand Years, in order that this man
personally remain free of sin.

He
(the Reichsführer) was beyond help.
For the sake of the German people and its
Führer he had had to take things upon
his own shoulders of which nobody must
ever be allowed to learn. [...]
The Reichsführer had taken the
decision to solve the Jewish Problem
radically, as Himmler considered the
Jewish Problem and Bolshevism to be
practically identical.

Impetus No. 1: Stalin's
declaration of total partisan warfare in
July 1941

Impetus No. 2: The Assassination of
Heydrich
[left, by
International Jewry]

Wolff inclines to the opinion, that
Hitler did not touch upon the question of
the Vernichtung of the Jews even with
Himmler and in this sense kept himself
well out of the whole thing. ... The
little circle under Himmler's and
Bormann's cover ... declared simply, that
they were acting on a "Führer order",
without this ever having been explicitly
given.